Across The Tracks

This week's topics include the North Carolina Mass Shootings, Warnock-Walker debate, the latest Jan 6 committee hearing, and the plight of black farmers.

This episode discusses Hurricane Ian, Newsmax anchor Greg Kelly's attack on the African-American Museum, Aaron Judge's chase of the Maris record, Boston Celtic head coach, and memorials to Coolio and Ramsey Lewis.

Wayne and Steve discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth II, remembrance of the 9-11 attacks, the black national anthem being played at the start of the NFL season, and the passing of Journalist/CNN anchor Bernard Shaw.

A discussion about the NFL's Deshaun Watson suspension, Liz Cheney's fight to save democracy, and the FBI search of Mar-a-Largo in this episode.

This episode covers the assassination of the Japanese Prime Minister Abe, the level of ignorance in America, the development of super conferences in college football & WNBC star Britney Griner's trial in Russia.

Wayne & Steve discuss America's anger and/or fear, the mass shooting in Illinois, the Political turn of the Supreme Court, the Jan 6 hearing, Justice Jackson, the 50th anniversary of Title IX & memorial of QB Marlon Briscoe.

Both Wayne & Steve reflect on the 1st primetime Jan 6th hearing, Senatorial election in Ky between Booker & Paul, Elie Mystal's book "Black Guy's guide to the Constitution, LIV vs PGA Golf, and McConnell's support of gun laws to protect Supreme Court Justices.

In this episode, Steve and Wayne discuss the recent mass shooting in Texas, national anthem protest by San Fransisco Giants manager, Gabe Kepler, and insights from the recent Indy 500.

Steve, Wayne, and Joey spend the 2nd day of the Indianapolis 500-time trails at the speedway and reflect on the times, cars, and drivers. Wayne discusses the first black group of men and women to traverse the summit of Mt. Everest.

During a return to E-town to celebrate a close friend's Birthday, Wayne and Steve are joined by friends and family to have conversations about recent topics which include Phil Mickelson, the Buffalo NY mass shooting, and the leaked Supreme Court ruling on Roe vs Wade.

Steve and Wayne discuss if America has progressed since the world was introduced to Rodney King, Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, student debt cancellation, Michigan state Senator McMorrow's impassioned speech, and memorial to Ashley Judd.

Steve and Wayne discuss the essence of what makes a film Black Movie, and the 75th Anniversary of Jackie Robinson's major league debut.

Wayne and Steve discuss Ketanji Brown-Jackson's rise to the United States Supreme Court, Will Smith's Oscar drama, the return of Tiger Woods to golf, and the continuing crisis in Ukraine.

In this episode, Steve and Wayne compare and contrast the current state of America to that of the apartheid system, which governed South Africa.

This episode covers the Ukrainian Crisis, the Juwan Howard (University of Michigan head basketball coach) incident, the sentencing of former police officer Kim Potter, the Federal convictions of the Ahmad Aubrey three, and the NBA All-Star game.

In this episode, Steve and Wayne discuss hiring of black coaches in the NFL, holocaust comments by Whoopi Goldberg, Black History Month in the age of white fear, and jail sentence imposed upon Pamela Moses for trying to register to vote.

In tonight's episode, Steve and Wayne discussed Presidental actions, sports trailblazers, non-complicance to covid mandates, and memorials.

In this episode, Wayne and Steve discuss SCOTUS ruling on vaccine mandates, Novak Djokovic deported, memorials of Bob Sagat, Ronnie Spector, Joe B. Hall, Brigadier General Charles McGee (Tuskegee Airman), and reflections on Martin Luther King Jr's legacy in today's America.

Steve and Wayne discuss sports personalities and their issues on and off the courts and/or field, reflections on the Jan 6th insurrection, and memorialize Actor/director Sidney Poitier.

The last episode of 2021 covers the memorials of Desmond Tutu, John Madden, Harry Reid, Betty White, and various other topics from the year 2021.

After a few week layoffs, Steve and Wayne's topics cover 2021 Time Magazine's person of the year controversial choice, Federal Judges, military discharge of no vaccine servicemen and women, and memorialize R & B great Joe Simon.

After several weeks away, Wayne and Steve return to discuss the Rittenhouse verdict, the Astroworld concert tragedy, US House Representative Paul Gosar's attack on another member of Congress, the death of rapper Young Dolph, the Ahmad Arbrey trial and the passing of Colin Powell.

In this episode we discuss John Gruden leaving the Las Vegas Raiders, Singer Jill Scott possibly emigrating to the nation of Holland, DC Comic leaving some of its readers bewildered by having Clark and Lois Kent’s son John come out as gay, and William Shatner (Captain Kirk) leaving the earth in a real spaceship.

Wayne and Steve are joined by a E-town High School student and we discuss our home town from his perspective. We also discuss the first NASCAR win by Bubba Wallace and the 50th anniversary of Soul Train.

This week's topics of discussion were the memorials of Michael K Williams, Melvin Van Peeples, the United States Governments' debt ceiling, the Haitian refugees, the Ken Burns series on Muhammed Ali. This episode ends with Steve's first-hand observation of protocols used during a week-long Caribbean cruise.